Stationary is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STATIONARY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• something fixed
• something static
• One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
ADJECTIVE:
• fixed in a station, course, or mode
• not moving or not intended to be moved
• (of a planet) having no apparent motion in longitude.
• not changing in quantity or condition
• Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
• Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
• standing still
• not capable of being moved
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• fixed in a station, course, or mod; immobile

Words related to STATIONARY

stationaries12 stationarily15 stationariness14

Words that contain STATIONARY

geostationary17 nonstationary16

How to use STATIONARY in a sentence

• They had travelled quietly with us as we moved from place to place, or stayed inactive at the tents while we remained stationary.
• With such capacity for development, it is incomprehensible that you should so long have remained stationary.
• After a great struggle he was eventually moved to Korogwe to the stationary hospital.
• I was not remaining stationary, as I had thought, but I was being drawn by unseen forces towards something worse, towards the depths, the fearful depths, of which he had spoken.
• The Bajows at some islands are stationary, but are for the most part constantly changing their ground.
• If the brass block be set in the middle of the link, no motion is communicated to it, and the valve being consequently kept stationary and covering both ports, the engine stops.
• In this estimate of clerical responsibilities Crabbe seems to have remained stationary.
• Such a book would be valuable only to engineers of large stationary engines.
• There is no question but that there is a great advantage in the compound engine, for stationary and marine engines.
• For the progressive maxims of the republic and the empire, she had substituted the stationary maxims of the papacy.
• The Nautilus was stationary, floating near a mountain which formed a sort of quay.
• I pointed but that for perhaps five years past my weight practically had been stationary.
• He followed him to the pulpit, fastened the door, became stationary, and rested his left arm over the railings of the stairs.
• He remained silent and stationary, unconscious that the years in which he might have fulfilled his trust had gone for ever.
• A man sailing upon the river imagines that objects upon the shore are moving, whereas he is in motion, and they are stationary.
• As a matter of fact, the heavenly orbs are stationary, and the earth is turning upon its axis.
• The eye sees the sun and planets revolving around the earth, whereas in reality the sun is stationary, central, and the earth revolves upon its own axis.
• Thus the strength of the men remained nearly stationary throughout the experiment.
• She had a theory that if we could put Aggie in a hammock she would feel better, as the hammock would remain stationary while the ship rocked.
• The blurred shadow of the foothills seemed stationary.
• The engine had run so hard, and some of the bearings had become so warm, that for the rest of the night the professor decided to let the machinery remain stationary.
• At a height of seven or eight thousand feet the target seems almost stationary, when really it is going somewhere between fifty and ninety miles an hour.
• We may flatter ourselves, too, that literature and taste have not been stationary, and that some advancement has been made in the elegant, as well as in the useful arts.
• Caps made from brass are fitted tightly on the ends of the stationary shaft, D, and drilled through their diameter to admit heavy copper rods, KK, which are bent as shown.
• The Italian cavalry, stationary and braced for the shock, received their foes silently.
• But obviously these relations, vary them as we will, imply nothing in the stationary pillar, though they are real in the man who holds or changes his position.
• Our watches were gone, and we were living beneath a stationary sun.
• The next morning he proceeded to the height of land, and after twice crossing it reached his stationary camp on Asherbish at noon on the 21st September.
• She remained, therefore, more stationary, and at the same time acquired more cunning, than the male.
• Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story.
• In case the worlds are equal in mass, they will both take the same orbit around a central stationary point, midway between the two.
• It would lead us to conclude, that if the consumption of the particular production of which we are speaking remains stationary, or nearly so, machinery must injure labour.

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